3 Things You Must Do Daily Online for Your New Business

There are probably 600 things you could do today for your business. How do you choose which are the most important? Well, though it varies by day these are some activities you really should do daily without fail.

1. Read and reply to email. This is the first thing we do every day for a couple of reasons. We want to know if there are any problems we can sort out immediately that might lead to a sale – those are great problems to sort out quickly, we know you’ll agree! We also want to see if there are any orders – we get notified of orders that happened overnight by email – so it’s always a good kick in the pants to see them and start the day off on the right foot.

Reply to email as fast as you can and your customers will have a real respect for you. I can’t even count the neumber of times I’e had people thank me for eing so prompt with returning their email. It means a lot to them because, as you probably know, sometimes you’ll wait 3 days for a reply from a company which has staff that were too busy to answer your query. Business is done in minutes online… not days. Don’t ever let a customer wait more than 24-hours to get a reply from you.

2. Visit your website – make sure it’s loading and make sure it’s loading fast enough. If you have a good host for your business – like Godaddy.com or Bluehost.com you’ll probably not have problems, but if you’re using a discount hosting service your business site might be down for days at a time and you wouldn’t know it.

3. Go to Google and enter some search terms your business website usually shows up for. Pay careful attention to the results. Google monitors websites that have harmful content on them. It’s not a comprehensive check, and it couldnt’ substitute for Norton’s products, but what you want to know is if Google is flagging your site for some reason. If you have sort of Google penalty your site won’t come up in the Google results – or it will come up way down the results list. You’ll want to go to Google Webmaster tools and straighten that out with Google ASAP. It’s essential that your business website is trusted by Google.

A tactic of many unscrupulous programmers is to plant code on unsuspected website owners’ sites. If that code is malicious Google will often find some of it and let you know in the search results or after you click your link.

We had it happen to us once and we lost Google’s trust and almost all of our sales until we got it straightened out. If you want to know more about Google and internet marketing we’ll have some free and premium courses here to help you.